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Google provides the same cloud services as other cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services(AWS) and Microsoft (Azure). It refers it as Google Cloud Platform or GCP. You can easily get started by signing up for free – https://cloud.google.com/free/

The gcloud toolkit is a command line interface tool to interact with GCP resources. Very useful in automating cloud tasks, with its command completion and help pages, it is almost a necessity to familiarize yourself with this tool.

3. Cloud deployment manager
GCP deployment manager allows you to create, delete and update GCP resources in parallel by declaring a set of templates written in jinja2 or python. Templates can be shared with other teams and can be re-used with little modification.

Cloud service provides publish the subnet IP ranges through multiple ways. This information is particularly important if you want to setup firewall rules or proxy whitelisting based on IP address range.

As of the beginning of 2017, Amazon Web Services(AWS) is the leader in Cloud based infrastructure as a service(IAS), followed by Microsoft. The cloud business is still competitive and many enterprises have yet to migrate fully to the cloud. Cloud service providers are continuously competing in the quality of service, diversity and range of services provided, price etc.

A new entrant to the Cloud business is Google, which has recently started targeting big enterprises as well as individual developers and small businesses. The core infrastructure Google had used for years internally to service global users on such services as Gmail, Google maps, Google search is now being offered to users. The Gartner magic quadrant for 2016 has put it in the visionaries quadrant –